# AeroSpace v0.20.0-Beta

- Product: AeroSpace (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/aerospace)
- Vendor: Nikita Bobko
- Date: 2025-11-24
- Version: v0.20.0-Beta
- Original notes: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/releases/tag/v0.20.0-Beta
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/aerospace/releases/v0.20.0-beta
- Labels: Pre-release; Platforms: macOS

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- **changed** — Avoid unnecessary AX requests for focusing windows to improve performance with applications slow at answering AXRaiseAction requests
- **added** — Show an indication when macOS Secure Input is on
- **changed** — Improve dialog and popup heuristics for better compatibility with applications like Zebar, VSCode, Screen Studio, CleanShot X, browser PIPs, and Slack
- **changed** — Ignore browser PIP windows by default
- **changed** — Improve the optimal hide corner algorithm
- **changed** — Better config error reporting dialog
- **changed** — Volume command now shows volume indicator
- **fixed** — Fix bug where focus command didn't work when all windows were floating
- **fixed** — Fix bug where detaching Chrome tabs sometimes yielded a floating window since Tahoe
- **fixed** — Ignore iTerm2 hotkey window
- **fixed** — Fix crashes
- **added** — New persistent-workspaces config option
- **added** — Support more interpolation variables in list-monitors, list-windows, list-workspaces
- **added** — Add i3-ordered menubar style
- **added** — Add fullscreen mode indication in menubar
- **added** — Lift on-window-detected.run limitations
- **added** — Implement on-mode-changed callback
- **changed** — Make users explicitly supply --stdin flag to workspace and move-node-to-workspace commands when stdin is used

**Improvements**
- [85fb9779](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/commit/85fb977905b47a0183f1927486a214244ec27406) Performance: avoid unnecessary AX requests for focusing windows (affects apps that are slow at answering `AXRaiseAction` AX requests. For instance, Godot)
- [#1486](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1486) Show an indication when macOS Secure Input is on. By @mobile-ar
- [#1617](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1617) [#1658](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/discussions/1658) [#1710](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/discussions/1710) [#1271](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1271) [#221](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/221) [#1667](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/discussions/1667) [c71c243298](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/commit/c71c24329871a9014a4410291e71e3247f2767ac) Improve dialog/popup heuristics (Compatibility with: Zebar, VSCode, Screen Studio, CleanShot X, browser PIPs, Slack, and how the hell knows what else)
  - [#1617](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1617) [#2](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/2) Ignore browser PIP windows by default
  - New heuristic logic might break existing properly working applications. Please report issues
- [#413](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/413) Improve the _optimal hide corner_ algorithm
- [#1495](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1495) Better config error reporting dialog. By @mobile-ar
- [#1494](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1493) `volume` command now shows volume indicator. By @mobile-ar

**Bug fixes**
- [#521](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/521) Fix bug: `focus` command didn't work when all windows were floating
- [#1771](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1771) Fix bug: Sometimes detaching Chrome Tabs yields a floating window since Tahoe
- [#1813](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1813) Ignore iTerm2 hotkey window
- [#1613](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1613) [#1588](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1588) Fix crashes

**New features**
- [#999](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/999) New `persistent-workspaces` config option
- [#1656](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1656) [#1161](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1161) Support more interpolation variables in `list-monitors`, `list-windows`, `list-workspaces`. By @alewis001
- [#711](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/711#issuecomment-3222556176) Add i3-ordered menubar style. By @mobile-ar
- [#1494](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1494) Add `fullscreen` mode indication in menubar. By @mobile-ar
- [#20](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/20) Lift `on-window-detected.run` limitations
- [#390](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/390) Implement `on-mode-changed` callback

**Breaking changes**
- [#1683](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/1683) Make users explicitly supply `--stdin` flag to `workspace`/`move-node-to-workspace` commands when stdin is used. By @Gai-H

\- Nikita Bobko, 24 November 2025